... Books: Reviewed by Trevor Allen HOW the great betray them selves in the little! In the garden of Miss Naomi Jacob's home at Sirmione, Lake Garda, was buried a pet Pekinese with his name, Samuelo, painted above the grave. When the all- conquering Nazis arrived they said: The name is Jewish. To-morrow it will be painted out. And it was. Even during that bitter struggle, she writes, they ...

... wwvvvwv> 7HEN was the real birth of the horror story as VV we know it? Allowing for mere anecdotal or episodic forerunners, Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser, editors of Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Hammond, 1 8s.), date it from s Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, in 1764, ...